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| Neutral electronics are a farce... with the induced magnetic field produced by current flowing through all cables and wiring including those big honking transformers AND the RFI/EMI generate by the house AC as well as all those cute little microprocessing chips.You can avoid tha... | |
| Is New Vinyl Exempt from Loudness Wars? LP mastering is almost always different from that of CD, even if made from the same digital file.The reason is you don't have to compress LPs because there is no intention that they will be played in a car. | |
| Сhoice preamp We had a McCormick amplifier here recently and it worked quite well with all of our preamps.BTW, it does not matter what music you play- the electronics really don't care about that and are not genre specific. | |
| Tube amp powered up? Its not the turn-on surge that messes with tubes, its something called 'cathode stripping' but it only happens in any significant way to power tubes, and that occurs when B+ (voltage) is applied before the tube is completely warmed up. The Jolida ... | |
| Neutral electronics are a farce... Some studio consoles are excellent and others not so good.I do a lot of listening on Grado headphones; they are trustworthy. We built up 6 channels of vacuum-tube microphone preamps which are wired directly into the tape machines- no intervening m... | |
| What used speaker would you buy with $20,000-$35,000 and why? For me it would be a newer set of Classic Audio Loudspeakers model T-3.3 or later. They fit in my room, they can be placed against the wall behind them. They are easy to drive (16 ohms, 98 db 1 watt/1 meter) and are full range to 22Hz. They are ve... | |
| Neutral electronics are a farce... I'm one of those recording engineers. There are electronics that really are neutral- that don't emphasize the highs while also getting the bass right. The problem areas are in equipment matching, distortions made by equipment that the ear interpre... | |
| Turntable for life Kudos to those who's summited. I'm still searching but if I may ask. After years of the quest is it the music or the table? I'm on a steady diet of idlers past couple of years. Into 50s and 60s vinyl mostly classical and jazz.My 'table is doing... | |
| Tonearm recommendation Hello Crazy Bill, Yes, I'm involved with Atma-Sphere. | |
| A push-pull tube design and Single-ended class A designs Based on the specs of the speaker an SET is out of the question!! You would want a speaker that is at least 10db more efficient with most SETs made. The recommended minimum power is 40 watts, which is a **very very** large amount of power for an S... | |
| Tonearm recommendation We've run the Feickert table at the last two Munich shows with excellent results, using a Triplanar arm. The Triplanar has the most durable bearings used in the industry, being the hardest metal bearings made anywhere at any price. It is also one ... | |
| Variac Variable Transformer This has nothing to do with tubes. It has everything to do with older electrolytic capacitors.You don't need a variac! All you need is a light bulb (60 watt will do fine) to put in series with the amp or preamp. Pull the tubes out if the unit is n... | |
| A push-pull tube design and Single-ended class A designs Its not that simple!!SETs work really well if you have a speaker efficient enough to really take advantage of their strengths. If you don't, you are wasting the money invested in the amp! SETs should be used such that only about 20% of their total... | |
| What turntable would be great for techno/ electronic music? I play a lot of electronic music, have for decades. There is no turntable that is particularly good at electronic music. The idea that any bit of the audio chain is somehow better for a particular genre of music might be one of the biggest myths i... | |
| Would like your tube amp recommendation A lot will depend on your room size and listening preferences, but the 20.1 was/is an excellent speaker, although I do agree it seems to need some power. But you can drive it quite successfully with less than 300 watts. Jim Winey used to make a po... |